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Need Program Notes for Weber's "Grand Duo Concertante"

Author: kenabbott
Date: 2006-01-08 23:41

I'm performing this in two weeks and I need some program notes. I have not been able to find anything particularly useful through Google. Does anybody have some commentary they'd be willing to share?

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Re: Need Program Notes for Weber's

Author: GBK
Date: 2006-01-08 23:50

Try looking at some of the written notes in the booklets enclosed with CD recordings of the Grand Duo Concertante (hint:look on the woodwind.org site).

Here are 2 links which Google should have picked up:

Some basics:
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~ea260599/piano/vonwegdc.htm

Eric Simon's 1950 article on the music of Weber:
http://www.clarinet.org/journal/anthology/1950-10-Simon.asp ...GBK

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Re: Need Program Notes for Weber's "Grand Duo Concertante"

Author: Morrigan
Date: 2006-01-09 00:05

When I ask for RESOURCES, I get thwarted; when someone asks for the notes themselves, you give them resources?!

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Re: Need Program Notes for Weber's

Author: GBK
Date: 2006-01-09 00:29

Morrigan...

Relax, the 2 reference links I provided are certainly available through Google, although a bit more difficult to track down. They hardly give enough information for program notes.

As always - reference books and biographies are a good place to begin.

In this instance, after getting some general background from Groves, I would strongly suggest looking for John Warrack's biography of Weber. His biography of Weber (which includes details of practically every work Weber composed) is the standard, and should be available in most larger libraries, or through inter-library loan

BTW - John Warrack is also one of the contributors to the Weber article in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ...GBK

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Re: Need Program Notes for Weber's "Grand Duo Concertante"

Author: kenabbott
Date: 2006-01-09 00:46

Nevermind: I found all I needed right here:

http://www.woodwind.org/clarinet/Study/VonWeber.html

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